Comparison

Everspring vs Lightkeep

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Everspring

Defend the sacred Everspring from an immortal orc horde by strategically placing towers and commanding a hero. Earn all upgrades and gear through gameplay, with daily challenges and leaderboards to test your skills.

Highlights
  • Offline fantasy tower defense
  • Six tower lines with twelve specializations
  • Commandable hero with unique abilities
  • Eleven enemy types with varied resistances
  • Earn all in-game currency and upgrades
  • Daily Trial challenges
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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Hold the roads. Keep the Spring. The elves of the Sylvan Reach are immortal only while the Everspring flows. Warlord Gorrak has marched the Iron Horde north to drink from it — an orc army that cannot die would wage war forever. You are the Warden of the Grove. Everspring is a free fantasy tower-defense game with no interstitial ads, no energy timers and nothing to buy. FOUR ROADS TO HOLD Wellspring Glade, Ashen Crossing, the Root Halls and the moonlit Moonwell Terraces — 20, 25, 30 and 25 waves, three difficulties, a Heroic version of every road, and Endless mode after the final wave, with optional curses for bigger rewards. SIX TOWER LINES, TWELVE SPECIALIZATIONS Ranger's Perch, Moonfire Altar, Grove Warden, Frost Well, Dawn Ballista and Spirit Beacon. Every tower upgrades twice, then forks into one of two specializations with its own ability: Windrunner Roost, Sunpiercer Bastion, Starfall Spire, Moonbinder Sanctum, Ancient Grove, Thornguard Thicket, Glacial Heart, Permafrost Shrine, Sunburst Engine, Siegebreaker, Warsong Beacon, Wellspring Shrine. A HERO YOU COMMAND Aelith Dawnwarden walks the roads with you: move her, block with her, fire her weapon's ability. Four weapons and four armors — bow, blade, staff and lance; leaf, bark, starweave and the Everspring Aegis — each with its own way of fighting. Legendary relics are earned by deed, not bought. ELEVEN ENEMIES AND A WARLORD Goblins, grunts, bat swarms, armored brutes, healing shamans, warg riders, sappers, berserkers, cave trolls, wyverns, Gorrak's shield-walled Champion — and Gorrak himself on the final wave. Armor, magic resistance, flight, healing and rage each want a different answer. EVERYTHING IS EARNED Every kill leaves Essence. Spend it in the Armory on towers, specializations, spells, permanent Wardenship upgrades and Aelith's gear. Reforge any relic up to three stars. Autosave between waves. Pause, 1×/2×/3× speed, call waves early for bonus gold. A NEW TRIAL EVERY DAY The Daily Trial: one road, one twist and one barred tower, the same for every Warden, new every day. Play it daily to keep your streak; the first win each day pays Essence. GAME CENTER LEADERBOARDS See where your Daily Trial score and your deepest Endless wave rank against Wardens everywhere. Made by one person. Plays offline.

About

Lightkeep

Features
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Carry your defenses toward the first light. Lightkeep is a single-player tower defense game with two heroes, six tower types, branching routes, and a fifteen-wave expedition across three camps. A WIDER BATTLEFIELD Play on landscape maps with 11 tower positions. Choose illustrated artwork or a 3D view with camera rotation and zoom. Command your knight and engineer, build and upgrade towers, choose blessings, and face the final boss. CONCEPT ART GALLERY Explore the original designs for both heroes, four enemy groups, and six tower types from the home screen. GAME CENTER LEADERBOARD Optionally connect Game Center in Settings to compare your total enemies defeated with other players. Your highest submitted total is kept on the global leaderboard. Core gameplay works without Game Center. SAVE AND RETURN Your expedition saves on this device and resumes paused. Optional Sign in with Apple and iCloud sync save your progress to your private iCloud database. Choose which progress to keep when first connecting or when saves conflict. Both the in-game Apple sign-in and system iCloud account must match across devices. You can also export and import a local save. FREE TO PLAY OFFLINE No advertisements, in-app purchases, or required login. Collect and equip available skins, weapons, and auras for free. Cloud saves and Game Center require an internet connection and the relevant Apple account. Designed for iPhone and iPad with iOS/iPadOS 17 or later. The gameplay interface supports English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and German. The app name is localized for additional regions; this does not add gameplay translations for those languages.

Screenshots

Everspring4 screens
Lightkeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lightkeep at none against Everspring's shown. Everspring's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Everspring ships an update daily, Lightkeep every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Everspring versus Lightkeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEverspringLightkeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB36 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperGino Cattuzzo彬 李

In-app purchases

None

Everspring

No in-app purchases

None

Lightkeep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Everspring free?
Everspring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lightkeep free?
Lightkeep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Everspring or Lightkeep have ads?
Everspring shows ads; Lightkeep does not.
Which is updated more often, Everspring or Lightkeep?
Everspring ships an update daily, and Lightkeep every 4 days. Most recently, Everspring was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lightkeep on November 6, 2026.

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